As the ice mass decreases, the bedrock below the ice rises, which is known as postglacial rebound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Warming] Reference

This is known as the postglacial transgression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference

New observations on the postglacial history of Tröllaskagi, northern Iceland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic climate variability prior to 100 years BP] Reference

They are names for the same thing: postglacial rebound or glacial isostatic adjustment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gore Gored: Monckton replies « Climate Audit] Reference

Molecular phylogeography of Dryas integrifolia: glacial refugia and postglacial recolonization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels] Reference

Molecular phylogeography of '' Dryas integrifolia '': glacial refugia and postglacial recolonization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels] Reference

The massive sheer granite walls present a freshly glaciated appearance with little postglacial erosion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yosemite National Park, United States] Reference

Some of the papers describing models of postglacial rebound (PGR) (or glacial isostatic adjustment, GIA).    From Wordnik.com.  [IPCC 1[1990] – Comment #1 « Climate Audit] Reference

Radiocarbon dates place most of these remnants between 8000 and 3000 radiocarbon years BP, within the same postglacial warm period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lamarche [1973] on Treelines #1 « Climate Audit] Reference

The development and properties of subsea permafrost are largely dependent on the detailed history of postglacial relative sea level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Permafrost in the Arctic] Reference

We can also estimate the vertical movement of the land caused by glacial isostatic adjustment or postglacial rebound using numerical models.    From Wordnik.com.  [IPCC 1[1990] – Comment #1 « Climate Audit] Reference

The last ice was retreating from midlatitudes by 10,000 years ago, and the warmest postglacial climate occurred between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [NAS Panel Report « Climate Audit] Reference

As the postglacial thaw progresses the oceans warm up, and some of the dissolved carbon emits into the atmosphere, just like fizz in soda water taken out of the fridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Misunderstanding Global Warming: Alexander Cockburn versus Global Warming.] Reference

Most scientists agree that the Chaco formed during Pleistocene postglacial fluctuations, from an arid to humid to semiarid environment, as initially proposed by Lüders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaco] Reference

Mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite variation in the eider duck (Somateria mollissima) indicate stepwise postglacial colonization of Europe and limited current long-distance dispersal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic] Reference

In the early phase of the postglacial period (Holocene), 8000 to 6000 years ago, mollusks with affinities for ice-free waters were common in Spitsbergen and along the east coast of Greenland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Variability in hydrographic properties and currents in the Arctic] Reference

Tree growth and warm season temperature have irregularly decreased in northernmost Eurasia and North America from the end of the postglacial thermal maximum through the end of the 20th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forests, land management, and agriculture in the Arctic] Reference

About 6000 years BP (the end of the postglacial thermal maximum), radial growth of larch trees on the Taymir Peninsula of Russia surpassed the average of the last two millennia by 1.5 to 1.6 times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forests, land management, and agriculture in the Arctic] Reference

We still know little of the postglacial hunter-gatherer societies of Central and South America, except for those of coastal Peru, where, in later millennia, important civilizations were to flourish.    From Wordnik.com.  [6. Central and South Americans] Reference

Rapid speciation in a newly opened postglacial marine environment, the Baltic Sea.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

They decided it would be a neat thing to put affairs into the old postglacial position.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Great Lakes and the Chicago Drainage Canal] Reference

Could the tree diversity pattern in Europe be generated by postglacial dispersal limitation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Content on CO2 Science] Reference

Understanding postglacial rebound is also important to our ability to monitor recent global change.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

Vendramin GG (2002) Chloroplast DNA variation, postglacial recolonization and hybridization in hazel.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Therefore, these populations probably did not contribute to potential postglacial colonization of Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Many of the valleys of our present rivers are but patchworks of preglacial, interglacial, and postglacial courses (Fig. 366).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

And we can be sure that the next postglacial expansion of oaks across North America will occur very differently than the last one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

This would allow clarification of the hypothetical implications of European southern and / or cryptic northern refugia in postglacial colonization.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Southern Africa, and Southern Australasia, remained in early postglacial conditions which rendered them inaccessible to the civilized nations of the torrid and sub-torrid zones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution] Reference

Each of our estimates corresponds to warm or pre - and postglacial periods (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Perca fluviatilis) populations reflect glacial refugia and postglacial colonization.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

M. arvalis was effective during warm, pre - and postglacial periods, and not in cold periods (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

These molecular dating results coincide with warm or pre - and postglacial periods between the Late Cromerian and the LGM (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

(1998) Comparative phylogeography and postglacial colonization routes in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference